теермен

Southern Altai

Etymology

From *tegirmän (“mill”), from Proto-Turkic *tegir- (“round, circle; to turn, to spin”).

Compare with Bashkir тирмән (tirmən), Kazakh диірмен (diırmen), Kyrgyz тегирмен (tegirmen), Turkish değirmen, Azerbaijani dəyirman, Crimean Tatar degirmen (“mill”), Khakas тербен (terben), etc.

Noun

теермен • (teermen)

  1. mill

References

N. A. Baskakov, Toščakova N.A, editor (1947), “теермен”, in Ojrotsko-Russkij Slovarʹ [Oyrot-Russian Dictionary], Moscow: M.: OGIZ, →ISBN

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